M 4.8 in Chile on 27 Jul 2025 10:37 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1492250
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 22.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.2875 , -71.8129
Event Date: 27 Jul 2025 10:37 UTC
27 Jul 2025 05:37 Local
Exposed Population:
430 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2025 10:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qvh8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Only one Chilean region still under tsunami alert 7/31/2025 10:31:00 AM.

Other areas were declared under a “precaution” status, and people were advised to stay off the coastlines. Following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia, Chile was the most affected country in the Americas by the likelihood of tsunamis. H
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Japan woman evacuating amid tsunami warning dies after car falls off c.. 7/31/2025 10:28:00 AM.

Authorities in Japan issued evacuation advisories to over two million residents along the eastern seaboard as the powerful earthquake brought back memories of the disastrous 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. The Russian earthquake triggered a t
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Volcano erupts near site of 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake in Russia 7/31/2025 10:12:00 AM.

A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia''s Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsul
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Across the Pacific, fear of a major tsunami gives way to relief 7/31/2025 10:02:00 AM.

A man walks past a tsunami evacuation route sign during a tsunami warning in Valparaiso, Chile, on July 30, 2025. CRISTOBAL BASAURE / AFP. One by one, tsunami warnings were lifted throughout the day on Wednesday, July 30, in most of the man
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),